I'm hoping to get a bit more video up on the site, so we'll start off with a bit of in-car footage from our latest run around the Yorkshire Dales. The sound isn't too great and you can't hear much of the engine, partly due to a bit of wind noise from a couple of gaps in the window rubber, so I'll do a bit of patching and try again.

With the nights drawing in I'm trying to get as much driving in as possible, so we took off in the MG for a run around the Yorkshire Dales. We clocked up around 100 miles in all, passing through a bunch of lovely villages.

I'd noticed the top of the rear license plate holder was a bit rusty, so I decided to remove it for a clean-up and fresh coat of paint.

It was probably something I should've checked when I took the car on, but in the end I came across it just in time. While checking the rear diff. was topped up I noticed the exhaust's rear saddle brackets had totally rusted through and the exhaust was being supported by about a centimetre of rusty metal.

Late models of the B have a strange issue with a diode in the handbrake warning light circuit. When this diode fails you have the baffling occurence of the engine starting on the key in the battery position. The first time this happened we hadn't realised until we tried turning the engine off and it kept on going with the key sat in my hand! A scramble for the battery terminals followed.